Motivational Quotes

Speech

Thought is the fountain of speech.

- Chrysippus

Best Quotes about Speech

It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

Aitkins, Eileen

A long tongue shortens life.

It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

Belson, Rami

From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.

Campbell, Patrick

Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.

Fallaci, Oriana

Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so he is.

Syrus, Publilius

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.

Proverb, Arabian

I do know of these that... only are reputed wise for saying nothing.

William Shakespeare

10.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

11.

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

Barthes, Roland

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Why doesn't the fellow who says, I'm no speechmaker let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?

Hubbard, Kin

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Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

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Sweet Benjamin, since thou art young, and hast not yet the use of tongue, make it thy slave, while thou art free; Imprison it, lest it do thee.

Hoskins, John

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The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue. [Ecclesiasticus 28:17 --18]

Bible

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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.

Maxims of Ptahhotep

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Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

19.

I do not speak to thee in drink but in tears, not in pleasure but in passion, not in words only, but in woes also.

William Shakespeare

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Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

21.

I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

Sophocles

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They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.

Walter Bagehot

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Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

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People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.

Raphael, Frederic

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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, --for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it -- not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

Melville, Herman

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Talkers are no good doers; be assur'd we come to use our hands and not our tongues.

William Shakespeare

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The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly --because if they don't speak fast nobody will listen to them.

Caine, Michael

31.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Demosthenes

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Be check'd for silence, but never tax'd for speech.

William Shakespeare

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Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

34.

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.

Hansell B. Duckett

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The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

Rorty, Richard

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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Chuang-tzu

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How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us.

William Shakespeare

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Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Thomas Carlyle

40.

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

Sir William Osler

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The mind is a wonderful thing. It starts working the minute you're born and never stops working until you get up to speak in public.

Ball, Patricia Ann

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Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.

Cato The Elder

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Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

Cioran, E. M.

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In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.

Tiberius

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The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able to tolerate the isolation of all other forms of composition; for most good talkers, when they have run down, are miserable; they know that they have betrayed themselves, that they have taken material which should have a life of its own, to dispense it in noises upon the air.

Connolly, Cyril

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We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

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For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn and the sound of the bells are fraught with mystery more than the baby's woeful face or the venerable tower.

Goodman, Paul

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Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

Noonan, Peggy

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Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo